Guild Wars 2

So apparently Anet envision the ranger’s showtbow as an hybrid weapon, last buffs buffed the power side instead empower the damage applied by the conditions.
Also because how is designed this weapon in opposition to the bursty longbow, is a weapon designed to do constant dps instead burst. Which i find very fine.

The weapon is almost there, It’s fast and could be potentially fun, unfortunately like most of the ranger’s skills has aged too much and the skills can keep up with the game.

You play with the Shortbow in pvp or wvw and you constantly feel like you are in disavantage.

so….

• Can we now please increase the range back to 1200?
• Can crossfire apply always 1 bleed and if it flanks another stack?
• Can Quickshot become also a leap of 600 and evade for 1 second? and apply 3 seconds of superspeed if the shot hits?
• Can Crippling Shot apply torment instead cripple? And the pet attacks the ones that apply the cripple and bleeds?
• Can Concussion Shot apply 5 seconds confusion if flanks plus the normal daze? Never understood why the difference when flanking if stun behave exactly the same as daze. And both conditions are cleansed with one stun break..

That’s all. Let’s try that. Let’s make the shortbow a rewarding weapon to use. Pretty please? Anybody reading this?

You forgot to boost the AA coefficients man. All of the skills require atleast 30% more damage.

3 Stacks on Confusion on 5 if not flanking.

You should try playing SB and check your dmg stats in pvp. It is absolutely horrid.

anduriell.6280:

• Can we now please increase the range back to 1200?

Even just that and i’d be in heaven.

To add to your list, and though it’s not SB exclusive: retaliation damage scaling with the damage that caused it, please?

Been wanting to make an SB hybrid ranger build for wvw forever, it’s just so kitten weak

Furajir.3815:

Been wanting to make an SB hybrid ranger build for wvw forever, it’s just so kitten weak

I was running one for a bit but ended up switching to longbow. It’s way less bleeds but it’s just such a better weapon overall.
The SB soft cc is just so outdated and you end up taking a broken amount of damage from retal. Once they nerfed ancient seeds so you couldn’t proc it 5 times I retired the weapon.

StickerHappy.8052:

You forgot to boost the AA coefficients man. All of the skills require atleast 30% more damage.

3 Stacks on Confusion on 5 if not flanking.

You should try playing SB and check your dmg stats in pvp. It is absolutely horrid.

For kittens and giggles I made a SB build for PvP and tried it out.

I can certainly agree with you on the damage aspect being pretty low.

The only contribution I felt like I brought to the team was poisoning people to knock down the healing.

Otherwise I was better off trying to pick up rocks and throw them at people.

I like SB so much I went through the hassle of making The Dreamer.
Nevertheless, when I do WvW, most of the time enemies will just ignore me, I think, just because my SB pew pews small numbers that can be ignored.
I am actually embarrassed when I see this
Some builds can just hit me 2-3 times and I am down, while me, full ascended PPF, I could just pew pew and get nowhere with my SB.
And don’t get started with the measly 900 range. In WvW, 900 is like melee.